I’ll walk where my own nature would be leading —
It vexes me to choose another guide —
— Emily Brontë

 

memo from the editorial desk

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video

Oregon Literary Review First Wednesday
Michael Shay, Rogers Truax, Ric Vrana, David Matthews
Blackbird Wine Shop
2 December 2009

podcasts

Three Friends Mondays: Caffeinated Art
Produced by Show and Tell Gallery

Caffeinated Art #134
Di Weide, Lisa Wible, David Matthews
Three Friends Coffee House
7 November 2011

Caffeinated Art #63
Norval Willey, Curtis Whitecarroll, David Matthews
Three Friends Coffee House
28 September 2009

Caffeinated Art #20
Judith Fay Pulman, Heather Browne, David Matthews
Three Friends Coffee House
10 November 2008

about the author

David Matthews is a native of the South Carolina Midlands, poet, runner, and unaffiliated intellectual. Began writing in high school. Graduated from the University of South Carolina with a degree in philosophy. Romantic vision and sense of himself as poet led to the dubious decision to forsake pursuit of an academic career. One day he found himself in Atlanta at the birth of the Little 5 Points arts scene and lingered there for twenty years. In 1998 he came to Portland.

He draws on diverse traditions to fashion poems that at their best convey a sense of something akin to what the romantics referred to as the sublime and the surrealists termed the marvelous. “Matthews heaves his heart against the bulwarks, sets his siege engines of verse a-going into the fathomless ludicrous nonsensical void” (Di Weide).

His poems and essays have appeared in magazines, anthologies, and poetry blogs. He is author of two chapbooks, Notes to One Who Is Far from Here (2003) and A Portable Bohemia (2008), and  several unpublished novels. The blog Memo from the Fringes has been put out to pasture but will remain online for the time being.

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